Safety bead device



H. W. WINKLER.

SAFETY BEAD DEVICE.

APPLICATION mw MAR. 21. m9.

1,315,753. Patented-Se t. 9,1919.

awmwukz rman WWinkler HERMAN 'W. WINKLER, 0F COLUMBUS, OHIO.

SAFETY BEAI) DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed March 27, 1919. Serial INTO. 285,?03.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN W. WINK- LER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklinand State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Safety Bead Devices, of which the following is a specification.

It has been the common practice heretofore to secure the cord of a strin of beads in a hollow tip having a singlh opening by filling the tip with cement and then pressing the knot of the cord through the opening into the cement.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a construction of tip for a strand of beads in which the knot of the cord is concealed and held without the use of cement. Another object of the invention is to make the tip of such construction as to prevent the knot of the cord from pulling out of the tip and to lessen the tendency of the cord to wear and thus become ruptured, such rupturincr often resulting in the loss of valuable beac s.

The invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described and then finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure l is an elevation of the tip on a large scale.

Fig. 2 is mainly a central section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a central section of a modification.

In the views 5 designates the body of the tip which, in the instances shown are of globular form and hollow, and made diametrically with a through opening one terminal of which is larger than the other. Heferring to Figs. 1 and 2 the character 6 designates a tapered tube which is fitted and secured by soldering or otherwise in the opening of the body. The tapered tube is shown as being abruptly contracted and rounded at the smaller end, as shown at 6, so as to avoid cutting the cord. The usual connecting ring 7 is soldered or otherwise secured to the body over the larger opening. The character 8 designates the knot of the cord as it appears within the tube.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the tapered tube 6 is omitted but the ring 7, the larger opening under the ring and the smaller opposite opening retained, the material forming the smaller opening being shown as bent inward and rounded as at 9 so as to present a non-cutting edge and thereby avoid rupturing the cord.

In applying the cord the knot may be first tied and then the unknotted end passed through first the larger and then the smaller hole; or an unknotted end can be passed through first the smaller and then the larger opening and the knot subsequently tied, this latter being the mode of procedure when the cord is strung with beads on the other portion.

The shape or form of the parts can be changed without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is:

1. A hollow tip for a flexible bead stringing member having a through opening larger at one end than at the other, the wall of the tip at the smaller opening bent inward and flaring toward the larger opening to present a smooth seat for the knot of the stringing member, and a ring forming a permanent part of the tip bridging the larger end of the opening and permitting the passage of the stringing member through the tip.

2. A .tip for a flexible bead stringing member having a through opening, a tapered tube fitted permanently in said opening, and a ring forming a permanent part of the tip brid ing the opening of the larger end of said tu HERMAN W. VVINKLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or Iatents, Washington, D. 0. 

